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The list of city flags lists the flags of cities. Most of the city flags are based on the coat of arms or emblems of its city itself, and city flags can be also used by the coat of arms and emblems on its flag. Most of the city flags are flown outside town halls and councils. Due to its size, the list is split into continents: List of city ...
Ankara [b] is the capital city of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.8 million in Ankara Province. [5] [4] Ankara is Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul by population, first by urban area (4,130 km 2), and third by metro area (25,632 km 2) after Konya and ...
Anatolia (Turkish: Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, [a] is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey.It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Turkish Straits to the northwest, and the Black Sea to the north.
There is the possibility that at the time Midas came the city was essentially unpopulated. In the same way by modern standards it could be argued that Ankara did not exist before Atatürk moved the capital of Turkey to the city, since its population before the capital came was almost non-existent in comparison to what it would be in following ...
Hattusa, also Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods. Its ruins lie near modern Boğazkale, Turkey, (originally Boğazköy) within the great loop of the Kızılırmak River (Hittite: Marashantiya; Greek: Halys).
The temple of Artemis in Sardis, capital of Lydia Tripolis on the Meander is an ancient Lydian city in Turkey. Büyük Menderes River also known as Maeander is a river in Lydia. Lydia is generally located east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish provinces of Uşak , Manisa and inland Izmir .
Antalya [a] is the fifth-most populous city in Turkey and the capital of Antalya Province. [3] Recognized as the "capital of tourism" in Turkey and a pivotal part of the Turkish Riviera, [4] Antalya sits on Anatolia's southwest coast, flanked by the Taurus Mountains.
Below is a list of ancient kingdoms in Anatolia. Anatolia (most of modern Turkey ) was the home of many ancient kingdoms. This list does not include the earliest kingdoms, which were merely city states, except those that profoundly affected history.